Richard Preston

“Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.”

“It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.”

“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.”